Now relegated to Blogblivion...

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Remembering

I’ve always kept at least one link to a collection of images from September 11 on my sidebar, and this site is no exception.  I spent a while today checking my list of links, making sure they were still active and thinking about which and how many of them I’d put up.  I do this periodically; not only do I hate having links die on me without my noticing, but I also find that it’s good for me to remember.  I find that it renews my determination in a way that nothing else really does.  You can’t look at those pictures and stay confused about what’s important.

Public Service Announcement (Again)

Repeat after me:

Refund.

REEEE.... Fund.

Not return.  Refund.  You just got your refund and it was larger than in the past thanks to the tax cuts.

You got your return in the mail at the end of the year, or from a library or post office, or perhaps as a PDF you downloaded from irs.gov and printed.  You filled out and filed your return and then, voila, if you were lucky, sometime subsequently you received a refund.

Isn’t this easy?  Nomenclature can be fun, and result in so much clarity.  Try it!  Reeee… fund.  “My tax return resulted in a big refund.” See how the two words are not the same?

Cool, glad we got that settled.

PayPal: Evil, Incompetent, or Misguided?

Sounds like PayPal is experiencing a brain cloud and taking it out on Kevin.  That’s assuming it’s not merely them being as evil as I have sometimes read that they can be.  I’ve never had an account, and some of the stories have made me nervous about ever doing so.

Yet it seems they are so ubiquitous, it’s hard not to use them for a range of transactions, without remaining out of the game entirely.

Update:

A commenter points out the plausible possibility that the notice Kevin received is from a “phisher,” trying to obtain personal information fraudulently.  Makes sense.  I have gotten notices of that sort, even though I lack PayPal.  Just not one so official sounding and ostensibly associated with a blog.  It does ask for account information, which is the thing to watch for.

Carnival of the Consumers

Jeff Doolittle has announced a new Carnival of the Consumers.  Sounds like a cool idea.

I’ve encouraged people to submit entries to Carnival of the Capitalists that are about customer service experiences that illustrate bad or good business practices.  Carnival of the Consumers reminds me of that, but is focused on products, rather than services or your customer service experience with vendors per se.  This is more in the nature of collected product reviews or commentaries as they appear in blog posts.

Blogrolling, etc.

I’ve taken down the blogroll for the BFL for the moment, since blogrolling.com seems to be having some sort of catastrophe.  Drives me nuts waiting forever for everyone’s pages to load when they have problems over there, which, granted, isn’t often.  I took the one here down even though there’s a decent chance that it’ll be fixed before I’m done talking about it.  Hopefully I’ll remember to put it back later on.

I think spring might actually be making an attempt at arriving.  Not only is it very nearly 50 degrees right now, it’s 1730 and the sun hasn’t set yet.  Today would be my own personal first day of spring, which I define as the day when 1700 arrives and I realize it’s still light outside.  Woo-hoo!

Random Musical Chaos or Something

Not so long ago, I noticed a meme in which bloggers were listing the first ten songs that came up playing a random shuffle of their iTunes playlists.  Here I am, at the office, needing music to work on tax preparation by, so I fired up iTunes on the other computer.

Here, for your entertainment, is the list of ten plus the one I double-clicked by choice as my first one to start the beast playing.  I will number that one the 0th song.  Option Base 0, if you will.  Here goes, then back to work with me…

0 Temptation Eyes, The Grass Roots
1 The Ballad of John and Yoko, The Beatles
2 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, Chicago
3 Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin
4 Space Age Love Song, A Flock of Seagulls
5 Foxey Lady, Jimi Hendrix
6 Isn’t Life Strange, The Moody Blues
7 Summer of ‘69, Bryan Adams
8 Bella Linda, The Grass Roots
9 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
10 Hey You, Pink Floyd

Run Away!  Run Away!

I had no idea that bingo calling could be so aggravating...or that it was the kind of thing that you could look back upon and make others laugh.

Sheesh.  And I thought some of my old customers were ill-behaved…

Welcome from Deb

Is this thing on?  Heh.

Thanks for following us over here.  There’s still a bit of cleaning up to do around the place, some links to be transferred, and the trackbacks to make work.

Does anybody out there know how to make the trackbacks in pMachine work?

Please forgive the tinkering and small upgrades that will be made around the place in the next few days or weeks.  If you feel you have been accidentally delinked in the move, drop one of us a line.  I wouldn’t be surprised by anything we managed to mangle in the last press to get this done.  And, of course, accidental or not, we never verbosely delink anyone, so don’t let the title scare you.

Hmmm...I feel like I should have a grand pronouncement of some sort to make, but really, all I have to say right now is welcome.  Thanks for coming, and we hope to see you again soon…

Welcome From Jay

Welcome to Accidental Verbosity.

I know it’s not much of a launch if I don’t post anything, but I will be busy today completing the 1065 and associated forms for the business, conjuring up numbers for same.  I’m already past my “be done by March 15th” target.

Perhaps if it goes well, I will take a break and add more here later.  With both of us posting, it should generally be more active than our individual blogs have been.

As far as Carnival of the Capitalists goes, the pages will remain hosted on elhide.com, along with my old blog.  They are linked over to the right, just lower on the sidebar than they were at my old place.

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